will you still try to get pregant if you know you have lyme disease..

I have been sad recently due to my 5 years old daughter also got lyme from me(even I did take antibiotic during my pregnancy)so most likely mom will pass lyme to your child,my husband always want the second child,but I don't want to take the risk and let my second child catch lyme from me again,so basicailly I have dicide to have only one child..but still pretty said when I see people their children has sibling to play with....whats everyones thought? thanks.

No, I would not. I have two beautiful adult children that don't have these infections, but I was infected as a child, and let me tell you - I wouldn't wish that on anyone!! Growing up in a time where these infections are not recognized even by our own doctors at times, and with no sure fire way of treating them, there's not much difference from when I was a child and growing up with them, and it was miserable.

It's not a matter of whether it's a 100% chance of the child getting the infections, but how would you feel if you did have another child right now and that child was born with these infections - and then knowing that that child had to not only go through treatments, but live with any ongoing issues that happened because of these infections.

It's like sexual diseases and pregnancies - we aren't guaranteed to get them if we have unprotected sex, but if you don't use protection, you aren't being smart about it at all.

Please, don't intentionally get pregnant while you suspect you have an ongoing infection. It's likely that you can have another child one you heal.

Good point, Nosila. I didn't even think of how sick I was - or the fact that I lost my first three pregnancies likely due to these infection (no other reason could be found). I was incredibly ill during each of my pregnancies.

Although there are a few lucky women out there that pregnancy actually reduces their symptoms - after having been on the other side of that, I would never do it intentionally.

I agree with the others - not to get pregnant while you have active lyme - not only for the baby's sake, but your disease could get worse.

Can you wait until you have healed and think about it then?

I'm the new kid on the block, but like Traveler and other veterans I've been sick for a very long time. I also unknowingly went through two pregnancies.

Now that I have been diagnosed, I can look back and see the symptoms in my son who is 16. My daughter seems to have avoided it, probably due to 2 years of antibiotics for ear infections. She is 23. I know I was exposed in my teens so I definitely went through both pregnancies with it.

It took me 18 months to get pregnant with my son. At the time, I thought that it was due to my age but now its more likely that it was the Lyme. I didn't have any miscarriages but I really wouldn't have know if they were early. Actually, as I'm writing this it's very likely I did have early miscarriage(s). I had trouble getting pregnant and used the charting of temperature etc and the results ended up being very weird. There was definitely times I thought I could have been pregnant. With my 23 yr old, I reacted to smells and things within less than 10 days of trying to get pregnant. It took 3 more weeks for a positive blood test, so now the weird results make sense.

Would I give up the beautiful son I have now, no. I am however devastated that I unknowingly passed him this terrible disease.

Your daughter is 5 but you don't mention your age. My kids are 7 years apart which was unplanned but turned out to be a blessing. Yeah, it's like starting all over again. But I only have to pay car insurance for one at a time. I don't have to worry about two teenagers at the same time. Only one college bill at a time.

Take your time. Get yourself and your daughter healed. By the time you are ready, there may be lots of changes in our ability to get treated. Make sure your doctor knows that you could still be infected even if it is a slight chance. I would expect that after you have been treated until you have no symptoms, a preventive dose of antibiotics may keep the Lyme in remission. Have the cord blood tested immediately.

Knowing what I know now, I personally would not have gotten pregnant with my son. This disease is something I would not wish on my bitterest enemy on even my worse day.

It's a personal decision and only one you can make.
Kim

For Igenex test - you need a Dr. to sign the lab req. Then you need a lab to draw the blood. Is it a Dr. who did the muscle testing? If so, will he/she sign the form and do a blood draw?

I was able to get a LLND to sign my lab req and do the blood draw at same appt....and she took care of sending it via Fedex.

For my husband, we had a different LLND at that time - not in our city, so he sent us the kit with the lab req signed...and we took it to our local lab and paid a lab fee for the blood draw.